Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions Contributions to Current Research in Indology Volume 2 - Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions

Giovanni Ciotti (editor), Alastair Gornall (editor), Paolo Visigalli (editor)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Puspika 2 is the outcome of the second International Indology Graduate Research Symposium and presents the results of recent research by young scholars into pre-modern South Asian cultures with papers covering a variety of topics related to the intellectual traditions of the region. Focusing on textual sources in the languages in which they were composed, different disciplinary perceptions are offered on intellectual history, linguistics, philosophy, literary criticism and religious studies.

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Book information

ISBN:	9781782974154
Publisher:	Oxbow Books
Imprint:	Oxbow Books
Pub date:	31 Jan 2014
Language:	English
Number of pages:	224
Weight:	554g
Height:	173mm
Width:	243mm
Spine width:	14mm